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The beginning of the new 2021/2022 academic year is around the corner and the MA in Applied Economics program is preparing their students for it.

Read more …New MA in Applied Economics Cohort Starts their Studies

The 2022 national budget, the age at which children should start kindergarten, investments in education, and teachers' salaries are among the topics that CERGE-EI experts commented on in the Czech media in August.

Read more …CERGE-EI Media Highlights for August

Some of our Ph.D. Candidates are finishing their studies at CERGE-EI in September. We wish them all the best with their defenses!

Read more …Ph.D. Candidates Successfully Finishing Their Studies

In a July 2021 listing of the most influential economists in Uzbekistan (per IDEAS/RePEc), three were either current or past participants of the CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellows Program.

The only woman on the list, Nargiza Alimukhamedova, is CERGE-EI's PhD alumna.

Read more …Uzbekistan Successes

The level of teachers' pay is a factor in attracting interest in teaching as a profession. Raising interest is necessary not only in order to recruit sufficient numbers of teachers, but to allow selectivity into the profession, allowing for more emphasis on the quality of teaching, a new study by Daniel Münich and Vladimír Smolka from the think-tank IDEA at CERGE-EI suggests.

Read more …Teachers' Salaries in 2020 and Beyond: Will the Czech Republic Rest on Its Laurels?